[Info-vax] Weird Bugcheck

[norm.raphael at metso.com]

i=tadamsmar <tadamsmar at yahoo.com>  wrote on 09/01/2009 03:26:07 PM:

> My technical lead reached behind a DS10 and jimmyed the video
> connector. (He was trying to disconnect it, and has that bad habit of
> jimmying things that are screwed in instead of gently unscrewing them
> and removing them with minimum force. He has been lectured on the
> matter.)
> 
> I got an immediate bugcheck and reboot.
> 
> Where do I start on analyzing a bugcheck, by the way?  I have not done
> that in a long time.
> 
> This is VMS 7.3-2 up-to-date on patches except those since the recent
> cumulative update 9.
> 
> When the system was not in use, I tested carefully unscrewing and
> reconnecting the video connector. No bugcheck.

VAXen had the property of bugchecking when the console was "untimely 
ripped" from its connection.  I have not seen that with Alphas or 
Itaniums.